pull to refresh is up there with the most devious mechanisms of all time
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 June 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
I don't even have many followers and do minimal engagement and I'm hooked, I can't imagine how insidious it would be to have a following
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 22 June 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
i bet if u have a ton of followers it kinds sucks at lest from a replies perspective, the faves and rts r prob real good
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 June 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
rip my menchies
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 22 June 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, June 22, 2017 6:38 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Worse, I've got auto refresh on :-/
Having a 'following' when yr not a weird twitter person/jokester is indeed insidious and, tbh, intimidating. It becomes a nuissance. My gf has 9,000 followers and she's very careful about what she says, how she says it (also to do with politics, tbh, but then everything is politics, especially on twitter). I've about 800 followers iirc but already feel inhibited at times.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 22 June 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link
Me when I tweet something and delete it 5 minutes later pic.twitter.com/jSbTQAEYaa— la bella vita (@drugproblem) June 20, 2017
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 June 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
ya notoriety on twitter seems bad
― flopson, Thursday, 22 June 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
unless u cn get ppl to give u money on patreon ;]
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 June 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
the worst twitter notoriety is prob when youre known for yr job then u make one little joke and get fired
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 June 2017 19:06 (six years ago) link
people of any political stripe who work to get people fired for saying stupid shit are The Worst
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 22 June 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
i SAID can i speak to yr manager
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 June 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
twitter is trying to make music happen again lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gukgEAdfOyQ
― maura, Monday, 26 June 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
how they could mess up such an easy sell is totally beyond me :/
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 June 2017 14:56 (six years ago) link
well the nazis are probably part of it
― maura, Monday, 26 June 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
has twitter made any money yet
― ciderpress, Monday, 26 June 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
theyve made a ton of money, but theyve spent it
― lag∞n, Monday, 26 June 2017 22:42 (six years ago) link
Admire Jeff's list. Here's my current one.
http://i.imgur.com/lFVaFgW.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 02:08 (six years ago) link
Jeff Tutorials
― goole, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
Ughhhhhh twitter
― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
Someone please explain to me what the fuck "Don't @ me" means.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 29 June 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
When a man hates a woman very much, sometimes he replies to her tweets with mansplainy bullshit that misses the point. Sometimes the woman pre-empts this by saying "don't @me", because "@user" is how you reply to someone.
And now everyone says when they want to say "this challops is my challops and I dgaf"
― stet, Thursday, 29 June 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
"fuiud"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 June 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl1dc2cEJfs
― ||||||||, Thursday, 29 June 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
By now it's just standing by something perceived as unpopular or out of character. "I'm a brony, don't @ me"
xp fuiud covers it perfectly
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 29 June 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
twitter sort of feels like the world finally realizing what ilx, or just text-based message boards in general, are like
like you come across a post like this
Can this possibly be true, or am I being had. pic.twitter.com/fGfB6C6XSH— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) July 7, 2017
and you're like "i'm sure we had a thread about this 10 years ago"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 July 2017 07:23 (six years ago) link
LOL and my response to Dawn was exactly the same as my wayback ILX answer, let's just pray she doesn't start a Twitter tipping thread.
― syzygy stardust (suzy), Friday, 7 July 2017 07:36 (six years ago) link
i just tried to fav this post ^
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 July 2017 08:19 (six years ago) link
'chyron' a strong contender for my fledgling block list
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
i love running across people who put an immense amount of effort into their online insanity (with zero response)
pic.twitter.com/QcHpwqKlEw— BOKE [name/brand] (@artistofideas) July 23, 2017
― goole, Sunday, 23 July 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFbpZHzXYAAvN6m.jpg
― goole, Sunday, 23 July 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
I feel like I'm rapidly coming to the end of my rope with political/argumentative/current affairs Twitter - not exactly sure why but it's something to do with 1) anything I could say is already being said better by someone else 2) i have evidence of this phenomenon in all the vaguely similar "zings" etc that litter my timeline
Sorely tempted to unfollow everyone and then slowly re-curate a better experience
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 July 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
yeah all the funny people turned into pundits that loathe pundits over the past few years
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 24 July 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
krang t nelson is the epitome of this for me, like funny but exhausting and sort of annoying
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 24 July 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
maybe i just need more sleep and exercise
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 July 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link
or maybe i'm right and they should turn it into a giant help desk CMS JUST GO AHEAD AND PULL THE TRIGGER
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 July 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
tracer i encourage you to quit and then start over. i did, i like it a lot more now, even though it's like 90% the same experience. when i got on twitter a few years ago i was trying to 'keep track of the discourse' and it was awful.
there are services out there that will mass delete and unfollow for you.
― goole, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
I've been considering burning down my entire social media presence for a couple weeks now and I finally emptied the gas can on it and threw the match on it. LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, etc. etc. Zeroed out and gone.
Genuinely feels good.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 30 July 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
...all except for us of course ;)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 30 July 2017 19:38 (six years ago) link
i think i joined twitter in like 2011 but didn't go back until this past november right around the election. the intervening 9 months have felt like years. so many nazis.
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Sunday, 30 July 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
Of course because I never considered ILX to be "social media" as there's no up/down voting, liking, faving or anything that turns conversation into incentivized transactions.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 30 July 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
Its pretty good to mix political stuff with the weirder things like dril (although that's pretty unique as its not v political - unlike @Hippo, say). Lots of funny shit comes into my TL to temper the awful news feed.
Don't think its gonna last but have a look at McDonald's Hong Kong. So good.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 30 July 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
Twitter is not gonna last, no five years (at most). Once an extreme addict (and I know the cured seem to be the worst opponents to their former addiction) but twitter is p much dead to me. Dipped my toes into it tonight after months of absence, during a tv thing that was supposed to be bonding, but the only ppl left seem to be ppl stanning hard for the exreme right or left; no nuance whatsoever. No leverage. No attempt at discussion. Nothing. It makes me hate my friends, my ~twitter friends~, and most of all myself. Rip twitter. Its death cannot come soon enough.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 30 July 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
There is quite a lot of nuance on twitter - and you can avoid a lot of politics if you are simply fed up of it. Film and book-twitter are pretty good.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 30 July 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
yeah twitter is great
― k3vin k., Monday, 31 July 2017 03:17 (six years ago) link
Film and book-twitter are pretty good.
Recommendations? I avoided Twitter until, like, two weeks ago, mostly so that I could tweet at Google and complain I did not get my hard earned free socks (long story). But then I was all, hey, I'm on twitter, what should I do? So I followed a dozen or so political things, and then ... stopped following people. Mostly because, like Facebook, I get the distinct feeling it is not showing me everything I want to see, not in order, not comprehensively, just sort of AI curated. Facebook, for example, I would peak at on my phone, think huh, then move to my computer for a better read and get different stuff. Facebook, fwiw, I need to stay in touch with certain friends and family. Twitter is more to kill time in airports and trains and stuff, but maybe I'm using it wrong? Oh, I did use it to contact the lead guitarist of the Cars with a question, and he got back to me, so maybe that makes it all worth while?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 31 July 2017 03:21 (six years ago) link
I got into it with an Oklahoma manufactured homes dealer on the Fourth of July because their home page had a photo of the Sydney Harbour Bridge during a New Years Eve fireworks display. Afterward, I was all oh yeah, this is what twitters all about.
― pplains, Monday, 31 July 2017 04:29 (six years ago) link
Well I follow some film/book reviewers/webzine accounts then gradually you see some of the comments beneath and you follow those ppl too. Then, over time, after some more following/unfollowing you settle into a bunch of people although every now and then you find new voices (its akin to reading or trusting an opinion of one ilx film/book person over another although I read as much from as many people as I can). Mine tend to be London-centric but some US stuff at times comes in.
Twitter is great for killing time at airports, trains etc., while you are on the move. Its perfect for that but not only that and its ok if it only remains that.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 31 July 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
One of my favorite Twitter users, PokemonyeWest, passed away. Mourning on the Internet is still an odd thing, even though I've been online for almost 30 years and seen a lot of deaths (of people I knew well, knew vaguely, and only knew via celebrity) over that time.
― maura, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 14:14 (six years ago) link
Today you are YOU! pic.twitter.com/lIebQ7TCZa— Taye Diggs (@TayeDiggs) August 14, 2017
― marcos, Monday, 14 August 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
aw thanks taye
― marcos, Monday, 14 August 2017 14:54 (six years ago) link